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I mentioned a few months ago that I was having rotator cuff surgery. So my surgery was on Dec 5. I honestly thought I’d have a lot more use of my right arm, but it was completely useless. Thus, my complete and total absence from this blog for the last 2 months basically. When they gave me the sling that I’d be wearing for 6 weeks, I was a bit flabergasted. Honestly, it was not what I was expecting. This is what mine looked like.

Keep in mind, I had to wear this when I slept, I was only allowed to take it off to shower and change. In my surgery, this was what all I had done: I had my rotator cuff repaired, my bicep tendon moved, bursitis removed and bone spurs removed. And with all of that, I have 3 tiny scars that are just a few centimeters each and one scar that is just about an inch long. All very tiny. Oh, and a very handsome doctor 🙂 Lucky me.

I was trying to decide if this was worse than being on crutches (which I’ve had to deal with twice in my life). I thought that crutches would be worse, and it a lot of ways they are, but honestly, both suck. I was more mobile with the sling obviously, but I could do very little for myself, especially at first. I don’t know how anyone could possibly go through this without a lot of help. I thought I’d be left on my own more, but boy am I glad my mom knew better. She was with me a lot, I could not have changed or showered without her for the first few weeks. And I still have very limited mobility and have about 3 more months of PT in front of me. They said that I should be back to normal by the beginning of summer.

You would think that with the inability to be able to do anything, I would have watched a lot of movies. But I spent most of my time catching up on tv shows that I hadn’t watched all season. I also spent the first week on painkillers, so that time is pretty much gone from my memory.

So for 6 weeks, no cooking, just watching my mom cook or ordering food in. We did go to see two movies though, Thor (finally) and American Hustle. Two very different types of movies, both good in their own way. American Hustle deserves all of the hype that it is getting during this awards season. I have to give it to both the ladies (Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams), they had to spend the majority of that movie without bras and still put in amazing performances. I will say that Christian Bale is an amazing actor. He is one of those method actors who really gets into character. I gather when he saw pictures of the person that he would be portraying he insisted on having a comb over. And honestly, that hair is like another character.

And oddly, I only read one book – Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places. If you’ve read Gone Girl, it’s just as dark as that with a twisty sort of ending. She really knows how to write for some emotionally messed-up characters. If you like darker books, you will like this.

So all in all, it was a rather dull 6 weeks. The sling was uncomfortable more than anything else and I was super happy when it came off this week. But I’m glad I had this taken care of now, it’s not something that’s going to get better with time, only worse. And I spent a year with shoulder pain before I had my surgery. This was a pain in the butt, so avoid injuring your shoulders people.